yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] ASK768:
pros:

-often get new features - like the new touch flow interface from the new rhodium and topaz htc phones. without flashing, you wouldnt be able to get this.

-you can install new OSs such as windows mobile 6.5

-if you want to, you can install "lite" ROMs which have very little features and as a result are faster

-you can also get "heavier" ROMs which tend to be a bit slower (with some ROMs such as Duttys, the difference is small)

-have many features/apps already "cooked" into the ROM to save you installing them yourself after a hard reset

-some have new drivers which improve performance.

-some have custom interfaces

-process isnt that hard once youve got hardspl/uspl sorted (and that gets easy after a short while too). its all run through an app on your computer with your HTC connected via activesync to your computer which is about as easy as installing a program (just click next, i agree etc.)

CONs

-can take a bit of time to get used to the process

-if you dont use a backup app, youll have to reinstall all your apps and contacts (everything on the main memory is wiped clean thugh SD cards are left untouched)

-if the cabe gets disconnected or the computer loses power during the flash, you can screw up your htc pretty bad

If you use your HTC for more than just its basic features and want to get the most out of it, definately flash a new ROM. the performance increase is noticeable going from a stock ROM to a well cooked ROM. Duttys 3.3 XT is a good place to start, however, youll have to hardspl your phone with the latest hardspl (its one of the stickies on this subforum)
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] KaidM:
Hi 449514

The main reasons are that either people are dis-satisfied with the way that the stock TF3D interface works for them and try to customise certain elements of it and/or they are trying to improve the speed, battery life and or memory available on their machines.

Those are the pros, of course the con is that there is no "official" commercial support for any of these Roms as they have been developed on a personal basis.

Hope that clarifies matters.

Kaid
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] sternas:
Yes, is a Crazy World... I like it..
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] 449514:
That's brilliant guys. Nice and simple. Makes perfect sense to me now and I understand the stuff in the other threads a bit better now!

I'll have a further read of all the stuff and then go from there.

Thanks a lot :)
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] alexis_p3300:
maybe it's the reason 4all of us buying a wm device,the potential & possibilities are endless..
[General Questions and Answers] TMA86:
Hello,

I have a question,

In my HTC touch HD (blackstone), when I listening music in TouchFLO in the headphones, the LCD turns off in a few seconds, but on speaker the LCD don't.

Exist any application to change this setting?

I try to install the HTC Audio Manager, but don't work in HD.

thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] timmymarsh:
:Dno app needed, just press the power button briefly on the top to turn off the screen:D
[General Questions and Answers] TMA86:
No my friend, when I press the power button the music stops.

if it were that simple, I didn't post anything here!
[General Questions and Answers] orb3000:
Welcome to the forum

Have you consider the option of using other player?

Coreplayer for example?

I have that installed and dont have that problem

Hope it helps,
[General Questions and Answers] timmymarsh:
Well thats wierd because i can do that or i wouldnt have said it lol, are you on stock rom? You can of course try as orb says, but i will investigate that!
[General Questions and Answers] josefcrist:
use gsplayer
[Touch HD Accessories] Philip:
I have been looking at the Nokia MD-8 speakers which you can pick up on eBay for around a fiver.

Anybody have any experience of these, either on a Blackstone or on any other device? Does the cable work OK as an FM antenna? What is the sound like?
[Touch HD Accessories] Kristaps-K9-Lv:
My friend has one and i can confirm that speakers work with Touch HD!!!

Sound is really good for such small speakers (good bass) :D

Cable works as an FM antena (as all 3.5mm headphone jack cables do)

Kristaps
[Touch HD Accessories] sephiroth_vg:
ya i have them too....buy those if u want to hve speaker definately...very good sounds quality :)
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] __tomtom__:
First of all: nice forum and hopefully you won't be angry about my bad english :D

I tried to search for the same problem, but it seems that I'm the only stupid man with this kind of problem... :mad:

Here's my problem: I broke the small little antenna-plug (the golden plug) on the back side of the touch dual.

You can see it, if you remove the back-side-cover and take a look on the bottom right side.

I was able to fix it rough-and-ready but it's just a matter of time when the small wire breaks of I soldered on.

Please see the Attachment. There I draw schematically how it looks inside (turned round 180°).

Now, what I'm interested in, is how is the internal wiring of this plug if there's nothing plugged-in?

Am I right if I say the "to the chip" and the other thing I named "1" should be connected.

I ask because I tried to connect these two things and had a networkconnection as half as good as normal, any tipps - maybe a wrong material?

I'm not really good at High-Frequency technics, maybe there's someone in this forum who is able to help me - or sell me the whole part. :(

ATM I've a normal wire soldered on - some weird connection (sometimes better than ever, and sometimes no networkconnection),

and, how I mentioned above, it's just a matter of time when it breaks off again...
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] cachon619:
antena faillure

i had allmost the same problem. after i unplug thhe external antenna plug, my phone no longer pick up the signal on its own! ive have to keep the external antenna plug in all time to get reception. noo help so far, but from my search, i remeber readiing that after u plug in the external antenna, u killed the internal, not sure if its true, but it happened to me. i notice tht inside tht gold-plug, if you dont prperly insert the wire, or external plug, u lose your 3g, best adivise is to modify a plug and replace the wire or google pocketpctech and send yoour phone to have it repair! they do it. 60 for eval plus watevver else it tak for repair..bout 100 total! better than a broken fone! if u frgure out how to wire those things u talked bout n it wrks, please share details thnks!
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] __tomtom__:
First of all: My solutions is very poor, but it works :)

Here is a blank picture of the backside of the phone. I found out, the plate on the bottom is made of metal, so I think it was used by the phone as antenna.

And here it's with description:

Hope it helps you. :eek:
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] cachon619:
wow! im impress! excuse my limited experience toying with this, but from the pic, n pls correct me, i need to remove the original antena port, which shouldd reveal two solder point, (one fr ground n other fr..?)is it? then i solder a wire to which point? altogether, i can nver use external antenna again? :(, ill wait fr ur confirmation then i will try..open my touch! cross figger, thnks so much!
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] __tomtom__:
Okay, once again: I did this, because I really broke my antenna. I didn't break it like you with parts that match to the switch - I was a little bit more stupid and wanted to make some mesurements with an oscilloscope. I tried to stick the probe inside and broke the antenna. - So I had no warranty and no antenna anymore. It was clear: Either I buy me a new phone, or I'll fix this one. So I fixed it.

If you have any warranty, don't do this. You will get a connection again, but it's some kind of stupid - not a bad connection, just a stupid one - if you try, you will see what I mean...

If you try this:

I assume no liability. There is no guarantee that it works. You lose the warranty! You may destroy your phone. You do this on your own! I didn't wanted others to do the same as I did, I wanted to ask the community if there is a better way to fix it! An original switch would be the best, but I don't know where to buy it from!

Again in German:

Sie entfernen die "Warranty-Void" Plakette und unternehmen alle weiteren Schritte auf IHRE EIGENE GEFAHR. Dies hat bei mir funktioniert, könnte aber reiner Zufall gewesen sein. Ich übernehme keinerlei Haftung oder gebe Garantien irgendeiner Art! Sie verlieren dadurch die Herstellergarantie und zerstören möglicherweise Ihr Telefon! Seien Sie sich darüber im klaren. Ich wollte nicht andere dazu bringen, das gleiche zu machen. Ich wollte eigentlich die community fragen, ob es nicht einen besseren Weg gibt. Ein originaler Stecker wäre die beste Möglichkeit - ich weiß nur nicht wo man den bekommt.

Okay - here are my tips:

If you try this, - Tip Nr.1 - use a wire half the size I used. Because you maybe won't be able to close the phone completly again.

Tip Nr.2: Try to switch on the phone while it's open. Then use some wire and try some different wire-sizes and the pin's you would like to connect - without soldering it on. In "Phone"->"Menue"->"Options"->"Network" you can force the phone to search for a network. Otherwise you have to wait always for 2 minutes till it finds the network.

You maybe have to remove the old antenna-switch completly. But try first without removing it - it maybe works... :) The old switch has 4 pins - when you open the phone look at the image in my first post.

Have fun and let me know if it works... :D
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] tinytom21:
Sorry if this is a stupid question, and YES I've been searching around, but I can't figure out how to install .theme files onto the Blackstone. The closest I have gotten, is installing Diamond TF3D Config, which installs fine but doesn't run (comes up with NotSupportedException ). The wiki IMPLIES that this program can be used on the Blackstone, but doesn't confirm it and it doesn't seem to work for me.

I'm running Dutty's 3.3. It seems that the .theme files are for Desktop Windows, rather than mobile... is this true? Everywhere else seems to talk about .tsk files for mobile.

Thanks in advance,

Tom
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] 8igdave:
im also intrested in this one.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] jevenstr:
Is it possible to upgrade direct from 3.00 to 3.03?
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 Software Upgrading] philiplam:
It is possible to upgrade from any rom version to any rom version, my friend.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] LotusElise99008:
http://www.rayfile.com/files/5429a22e-38a3-11de-a367-0019d11a795f/
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] paullu:
anymore infomation about this rom??!!
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] LotusElise99008:
More stable, less error on running application. GPS fix location quicker. Anymore wanted...?
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] stephencwl:
I've been using this since 28/4. Very responsive, stable and fast (after tweaking with Advance Config).

Not a single hang happens. Other benefits are:

1) Opera is really fast and responsive.

2) No memory leakage problem. Memory usage stays more or less the same even after a few days.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] xiyan2127:
Language

Guys what language rom is this. WWE?:) and guys i cant download from this link, can you upload to easyshare pls. thank you:)
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] Royroy:
Password required. What is the pw?
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] LotusElise99008:
It's in Traditional Chinese. I just tried the link and it's strange that the link was serviceable and it didn't require any password. But anyway I'll try my best to upload it to other place.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] WinterKnights:
ive been searching for months and still havnt found any decent programs, the software wiki is useless as it doesnt even tell you what half the programs are or do! ive been waiting since duttys 2.6 to ask these questions so i didint just throw 1 in here and there.. i hope you guys can help.

how about i ask:

whats is the best navigation system for the touch hd? ive used tomtom6 but it doesnt work too well best ive been able to use is google navigator however it doesnt have many features pretty much just what the dot move is where you are.

is it possible to have custom alarm clock tones? or custome msg tones? i cant seem to figure out how to change them to my own, ive even tried moving the file to the tones folder on the device but it wont let me.

i know it has wifi, but how do i know if its using my wireless networks internet and not the 3g data connection on the handset? can it even use the wifi for internet access?

using duttys 2.6 i can no longer change my background on the today screen anyone know why?

ive looked around but cant find how to set my device to view my hotmail account? any answers?

ive got a bunch of avi files on my computer which are mainly movies and music video clips, but they wont play using the windows media playeror divx player

i tried core as well but it didnt seem to work, i must be doing something wrong?

i love the keyboad but its too small for my fat fingers, can i make the keys bigger? they dont seem to get bigger even in landscape?

can i have more things on the today screen? like text msgs and stuff? when i click the sms tab i have to scroll through each individual text msg? is there a new page i can look at them all?

are there any modifications to make the sms page better?

what other modifications are there to make it more user friendly and can i modify the files in the device at all? get rid of any? add more?

programs im after:

a good media player for avi files

a good music player

some good games that use the graphics like teeter? some games like on iphone such as idracular? possible?

cheers guys..
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
IGO8 - without a doubt. Excellent performance, looks gorgeously on big Touch HD screen, great visual style, lots of cool features! Overall, I found IGO8 to be much better then TomTom, Ndrive or Garmin.

Yes it is. You need to convert your files to .wav format and copy them into Windows folder. After that, they will be available to pick when selecting ring tones for any event.

I believe you can set this up in dialing rules. Also, I think by default the device will always prefer connecting through WiLan if it's available and hooked up.

There are several programs now available that will enable you to enjoy background images in high quality on ALL tabs. Check this for example:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=503511

Not sure about this one, but I remember people writing about it on Blackstone forum, so do some searching.

Best performance for divx files can be achieved by using Core player. If you feel like recoding, it's recommended to use FLV container, with xvid codec. This seems to get best results. Depending on the movie, it's also possible to enjoy standard torrent divx rips directly via Core player, without recoding.

Why not try FingerKeyboard?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=501122

Touch Flo 3D Today screen is rather stiff. You can have more appointments by sliding the clock upwards, to make it smaller. However, there's no way to get messages display there. However, recently there has been some development here on XDA, allowing users to have a special tab for standard Windows Mobile Home screen - and you can install bunch of other apps for this, so you might find what you want after all.

Better in what way? As far as I know, you can only change text size, and that's only when you open up the message. Also, if you click on the message body when previewed in Messages tab, it will open up new Rhodium style messaging (not the default WinMo, like when you click on "All messages").

Standard HTC album seems to be best for normal AVI, since it uses hardware acceleration. You need to check your avi files, they're probably not properly coded.

What's wrong with normal HTC player? What are you looking for when you say "good"?

XTrakt (racing arcade)

Pocket Mini Golf 2 (very fun game!)

Need for speed (racing arcade)

Hexxagon Labs (logic, good graphics)

Bejeweled (logic, good graphics)

Transport Tycoon (strategy)

Monopoly here and now (strategy)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] miniterror:
for youre hotmail i can see my inbox in my messages

configure msn and while configuring youve got the option to synchronise youre mailbox;)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] WinterKnights:
thank you very much for you help, im going to re flash the rom to duttys new one and do pretty much eveerything ive been recommended on here and see how i go! now i just need my battery to last longer haha. without making it bigger!
[HTC Vox] Gary:):
Well i got my self a new e650 after my other one wouldnt turn on, trying and trying to flash it but i get "the image file is corrupted. please check your update utilty" also says error 270??? please someone help
[HTC Vox] hashtowent:
like ever! check for patched bootloader(uspl!) if it isnt then go to first treat here and do it! then you are able to flash any rom(if it goes alright while patching!)
[HTC Vox] Gary:):
Hi i tryed to do that uspl sotware but when i get to Run the ROMUpdateUtility.exe (Vox-USPL-RUU.zip) it came up with that same error that its corrupt
[HTC Vox] hashtowent:
is securityunlock sucessfully done?
[HTC Vox] Gary:):
Hi again! i just got the unlock cab from orange installed that, then i did the de-brande pack then the RemoveSecurity CAB , then i tryed the uspl again but still the same error message???
[HTC Vox] Gary:):
The sda_application unlocked was sucessfull , i then reboot to run uspl click the anykey . . . it goes thur all of them till it says run ruu update then it closes? so i run the ruu update
[HTC Vox] Gary:):
I just had to do a hard reset, can someone do me a step by step please !!!!!! really wana get a diifrent rom on hear
[HTC Vox] Gary:):
Done it ! i duno how but i have :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] niceguy0001:
Hello,

i have a HTC touch pro and wants to do a reminder repeater function. But the field is not possible to click. I can't set the hook the field. Can you help me! I think in the registry it should be possible.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] th_undead:
So, here's a short tutorial on how to create your own dll library and change folder icons.

what you need:

IcoFX get it here : http://icofx.ro/

ResHacker link here : http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/tools/ResHack.zip

and of cource ICONS get some here: http://www.iconarchive.com/

How it works...

Any customized folder has a shortcut inside pointing out the icon it should use

usually it's a icon.lnk file inside the folder.

and icons are usually stored in a DLL library...

So, what we have to do

1. Get some images and transform them into icon files ( .ico )

2. Create our DLL library

3. make the icon.lnk files that point to our specific icon

let's start.

After installing all the above programs and selecting some icons go and launch IcoFX

now go to Tools / Batch Convert

A new window appears

Add your icons / images,

select your icon sizes

select an output folder

hit ok

After it finishes hit ok.

Now go to Tools - Resource Editor

This should pop up

Now add your created icons

After that, hit save

Save your library with a .dll extension like in the above image.

Bam, you just created your own DLL library :)

Close the program

now to create the icon.lnk file

create a new text document

inside the shortcut looks like this:

1# is a parameter

myiconlib.dll is your icon library

-33 is the resource number where the icon is located within the resource dll

ok, how to find the right number for your icon:

Open up your DLL library with ResourceHacker

hit expand tree to see all the resources in the file

search for your icon

The icon number is very visible ( look at the image )

write the number in your text file like shown in the image. remember to put the "-"

so, another example:

1#MyLibrary.dll, -12

now, goto file , Save AS

Just to be sure select All Files in the Save as type bar

give the file the name: icon.lnk and hit save.

and you are almost done.

Connect via your phone via Activesync

Copy your Dll library right in the Windows folder

Copy your icon.lnk in the folder you want to customize.

And you are done.

Hope this comes in handy

Happy customizing
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] cay0tic:
Nevermind, got it fixed :) Sorry for the trouble.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] ai6908:
Great info! Thanks for sharing.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] oppman29:
works great with changing a folder... how do you change just a shortcut?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] mimo2002:
Thank you very much
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] vrgolin:
i dont nderstand this part , help please

now to create the icon.lnk file

create a new text document

inside the shortcut looks like this:

i have created the library.dll whit al the icons i want . i just dont understand this part above. i have to crate a new text document inside the shortcut? wich shortcut? i am lost in this part
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Neoo330:
I can't get it working, i did everything, i checked tree times but nothing works. :(
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] vrgolin:
I GIVEUP

sorry by my inglish , i have being trying to make this shortcut but nothing works, i have being reading al the esteps over and over , but nothing works.i am tired to try to make i simple shortcut, tired to try to change the estar icon, tired to try to change waiting star icon , i just cant do it, nothing seems to work to me, maybe iam so stupid, KEEP THE GOOD JOB ,
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] th_undead:
be more specific. what failed ? tell me exactly what u did and we\ll see what went wrong
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Neoo330:
Nothing happens :D I did step by step everything, but icon does not change :( Does it works on official htc rom :confused: Probably that's the problem :mad:
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] th_undead:
did u copy the dll into the windows folder ?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Neoo330:
Yes mate, as i told, did everything :mad:
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] th_undead:
lets see

Please attatch ur dll library qnd ur shortcut and ill take a look at it
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] actionquest:
Everything seems clear except:

"Copy your icon.lnk in the folder you want to customize."

It's confusing how to customize?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] bernabap:
Does anyone still come here?

I followed the tutorial step by step and also I had no success! Could someone help me? Or anyone know which dll is the original folder icon? So I could change them directly in this dll.

I have attached the dll and icon.ink that i created, if someone can help me and verify that is correct.

Thanks
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] CiclopeTP:
hello it looks ok....do you have reset your phone after copy the dll in Windows folder? This is very important because otherwise it dont will show the image....
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] bernabap:
Yes I did. Did not work. I tried to see in several dll where is the original icon of the folder to change but can not find. :(
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] nrfitchett4:
ok you lost me towards the end. in your example you say your icon is -12, but you have -9 highlighted do you not?

also, how can i use this in a kitchen after i create my folders using oemizer?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Senax:
Great tutorial, thank you very much!

I've created a tutorial about creating shortcuts to Feature Settings and Applications. Plus adding icons to these links. It has many xda-links to specialized shortcut applications!

For me it resulted in icons for MortScript :)

Your tutorial about creating icons for folders was missing!! Thanx again!

Senax
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] c3374713:
didn`t worked

thanks for your tutorial.

i tryed it but i had no success :(

in resco explorer it works in some cases, in others not and in the start menu i had no success.